Microsoft issued a patch for the CoSnitch one-click Copilot vulnerability—an issue it was aware of for almost eight months—labeling the flaw “critical” and saying customers are already protected without requiring action.
Aug 19, 2026 ·
Computerworld
Diffusion models show “attribution decay,” where removing specific training images (even at zero access to the original data) stops changing the model’s outputs once model/data scale is sufficient, making it “practically impossible” to link a generated sample to the influential inputs behind it.
Aug 19, 2026 ·Computerworld
Unitree shares surged more than five-fold in their Shanghai debut and closed at 845 yuan on the STAR Market, valuing the company at about $50 billion—460% above the IPO price of 150.8 yuan.
Aug 19, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Cerebras’ CS-4 rack-scale system claims 30x the tokens per second per user versus GPUs for AI inference, using three wafer-scale WSE-3 Turbo processors with 4 trillion transistors total.
Aug 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Cerebras’ next-gen WSE-3T (“Turbo”) doubles wafer memory bandwidth to 43.2 PB/s (and 2.4 Tbps I/O bandwidth) by pushing the existing WSE-3 design harder rather than switching process or wafer/SRAM size.
Aug 19, 2026 ·
The Register
Avexitide reduced moderate-to-severe low-blood-sugar episodes by 55% versus placebo in a Phase 3 study of 78 patients, and Amylyx says it is moving to file an FDA new drug application by year-end for a planned 2027 commercialization.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
OpenAI says stronger chain-of-thought and tool-safety monitoring for some inference and all RL training/evaluations at GPT-5.6 Sol capability level or higher will add about 20% compute overhead to the workloads being monitored.
Aug 18, 2026 ·The Register
Cursor launched Origin, a GitHub-style code-hosting platform with collaborative code editing, pull requests, and repository storage.
Aug 18, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Ray-Ban Meta AI Glasses pair built-in Meta AI with a 12MP ultra-wide camera, a five-microphone array, and open-ear directional speakers for hands-free translation, real-time contextual assistance, voice calls/texts, and photo/video capture (3K video) while you stay aware of your surroundings.
Aug 18, 2026 ·
CNET
Anthropic is preparing to give CEO Dario Amodei and other co-founders a special class of stock with extra voting power ahead of an expected IPO, to insulate them from external shareholder pressure.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
A new npj Climate Action paper argues AI-driven productivity gains in the fossil fuel industry could outweigh AI-enabled emissions reductions in renewables, because it says renewables would need net emissions gains 4–5x greater than fossil fuel gains to offset them.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
macOS 26.7 beta code references a new “HomeAccessory” with a screen, including a “Faces” home screen and “Face Gallery” for customizable watch-like faces with widgets and Smart Stacks.
Aug 18, 2026 ·
Engadget
Robin Williams’ children (Zak, Zelda, and Cody) restored his inactive 2014 Instagram account to use it as a “safe, trusted place” aimed at reducing AI abuse of his voice and likeness.
Aug 18, 2026 ·
The Verge
Spotify’s AI-powered Running Mode is now available on Android in the US, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and Sweden via the Spotify Fitness Hub.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Engadget
A PNAS study of 715 U.S. X users found the platform’s algorithm was more likely to amplify posts that didn’t align with users’ self-reported values, with reply behavior—despite making up under 7% of interactions—weighted heavily enough to create an outrage feedback loop.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Engadget
TSMC’s most recent quarter revenue rose 36% year over year and net income jumped 77%, with third-quarter revenue guidance implying about 37% year-over-year growth at the midpoint and gross margin guidance of 65% to 67%.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
SpaceX officially closed its $60 billion acquisition of Anysphere, the software company behind the AI coding platform Cursor, with the deal effective Aug. 14.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Goldman Sachs named CoStar Group (CSGP) the top pick in its “AI Productivity Beneficiaries” basket, estimating 37% of its wage bill is exposed to AI automation and that labor costs equal 31% of sales.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Agentic memory improved task completion in a model-dependent way: gpt-oss-120b gained +16.1 percentage points (TGC) with curated retrieval versus +5% more tokens, while DeepSeek-V3.2 gained +9.5pp (TGC) from the full guideline set and GLM-5 showed 0.0pp gain (TGC and SGC) from any memory configuration.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Hugging Face
OpenAI said it will tighten safeguards for model development by adding stronger monitoring, alignment and security controls and increasing network isolation so a single workload compromise won’t by itself enable unauthorized internet or internal-network access.
Aug 18, 2026 ·TechCrunch
